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Fit up to 3× the footage on the drive you already own.

The answer to rising storage prices. You can’t make drives cheaper. You can make your footage smaller.

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macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · 2 videos free

500GB DRIVE · TODAYFULL
68.4 GB
44.2 GB
38.5 GB
131.0 GB
29.3 GB
24.6 GB
57.2 GB
74.8 GB
17.6 GB

9 shoots · 485.6 GB. no room for the next one.

Your camera footage is
terribly inefficient.

Cameras compress in real time, on a battery, with one chance to get it right, so they write video built for recording fast, not storing well. Our test clips from a Sony camera were sitting at about three times the size they needed to be.

Test Footage · 17 clips
  • Space the camera clips were wasting60%
  • What the camera clips actually need25%
  • Phone clips, mostly already efficient15%
that first slice is 38.9 GB. minify gave it back.

Stupid simple.
Shockingly effective.

Test Footage · 17 clips
64.9GB64.9GB−59.9%
12 compressed · 5 left as they were38.9 GB reclaimed

One run instead of
a lost weekend.

The preset is the easy part. minify also decides what’s safe to touch, checks every copy against its original, and replaces originals only when you ask.

The jobPresetminifyLeave alone what it can’t redo faithfullyThrow away copies that aren’t smallerKeep file dates and Finder tagsManualAutomaticVerify every outputManualAutomaticReplace the originalsManualBuilt in

Paranoid
by design.

Your files are too important to lose. minify never touches an original unless you turn on Replace, and every step of a replace is journaled.

01

Checks what it can safely re-encode

HDR, Dolby Vision, ProRes, 4:2:2 and interlaced footage can’t be re-encoded without losing something, so it’s left exactly as it is.

C0078.MP4
H.264 · SDRcompress
IMG_9301.MOV
HDRleft alone
A001_C012.MOV
ProResleft alone
02

Re-encodes on your Mac’s media engine

HEVC at one high, fixed quality, matched to each file’s bit depth, colour, and frame timing. Audio is copied across untouched.

Compress67% done
03

Checks every copy against the original

Every frame is decoded, then duration, streams, and colour are checked against the original. Copies that fail, or aren’t smaller, are deleted.

Durationpass
Decodepass
Streamspass
Colorpass
04

Replaces the original, if you ask it to

Each verified copy takes its original’s place: same name, same folder, same dates. There’s no undo, so it unlocks after a Keep originals run.

C0078.MP4
10.3 GB
passed
C0078.MP4
3.1 GB· in place
05

Survives a crash

Originals are only read while minify encodes, so a crash can’t half-write one. Resume skips finished files; the one in progress starts over.

9 of 17 done
force-quit at 61%
resumed after the last finished file
0 originals lost

Built for people who
delete nothing.

Near-identical quality

HEVC at a high, fixed quality. It's still a lossy re-encode, so Keep originals lets you compare before anything is replaced. If you can spot the difference, we want to hear about it.

Pam from The Office holds up two photographs. Caption: “Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.”
Pam looks back at the camera, deadpan. Caption: “They’re the same picture.”

Keeps what matters

File dates, Finder tags, timecode, and audio carry over. Subtitles and camera data tracks are kept where possible, and you're told about anything that isn't.

No knobs to learn

HEVC, Main10, colour tags, timecode tracks. You never have to find out what any of them mean, because minify sets them for you.

Buy once, use forever

One license, yours for life, with regular updates included. No subscription creep.

Cheaper than the drive
you were about to buy.

minify

$50once. and never again.

Compare with ~$400 for a 2TB portable SSD.

  • ✓Lifetime license, updates included
  • ✓Unlimited videos, on any local or external drive
  • ✓Runs on your Mac, not our cloud
Download for Mac2 videos free · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon

One drive costs eight minifys. And the drive fills up again.

The paranoid section.